Willard Perch

[RockyRaab2]

Western wildlife departments also seem to be "troutcentric" and warmwater fish get short shrift - they are far down on the priority list for management. When you read angler reports from local reservoirs, and they say they caught four fish, you may assume they meant trout. "Fish" here means trout. Period.

That is improving, I will admit. Biologists like Penne are quite interested in making all fishing better. Kudos to him and others like him. But there's still a public feeling that trout are important and other fish are not.